Cultural assimilation

despise. Arguably, department stores minimize a person’s capability to act and think in a logical and self-governing manner. Adorno argues that “standardization develops due to the ability of the ‘people in power’ to regulate the manufacturing of cultural goods in order to try and gage and control what people like and want to buy to increase how much profit they make. Furthermore, he states that “under monopoly all mass culture is identical” (Adorno 1). Indeed, whether it be a sweater, a pair of…

humankind, past, present and the future of those residing in that community, tribe, or country. It is meant for those interested to understand in a clear manner the complications of cultures throughout history, to draw an understanding of the social, cultural, religious, and give a micro, macro, and mezzo approach. Although Anthropology has been around for many centuries, starting around the 5th-15th century, it wasn’t until recently that it’s becoming a well known term and a field of work, to…

Culture gives identity to its origin and makes its origin unique. Culture means a group of people’s way of life and way of understanding the world, belief, and value; which is different from other groups’. Each country has different cultural activities and rituals. This is why every country or region has their own culture. Culture can be expressed by arts, including architecture. ‘An architecture capable of supporting our identity has to be situationally, culturally, and symbolically articulated…

Cohorts are groups of people working together. The Business Insider speaks in terms of Gen X and Gen Y, baby boomer and millennials depending on what year you were born will define the category you belong in. Cohorts are explained as an unclear grouping of people within these generational groups as having common involvements. In other terms we could say that the dividing line is just a mix of the two groups (Nisen, 2013). “The greatest generation,” a term invented by broadcaster Tom Brokaw…

Every ethical statement can be categorized based on how the statement relates to the popular beliefs, cultural beliefs, and personal beliefs. This can be better described as ‘metaethics’ which is a second-order philosophical analysis that dives into the nature, meaning, and justification of ethical statements (Gerard). Metethics involves thinking about thinking, and it does so by making questioning statements. Typically it asks: “how do we know that a given normative statement is ‘true’? We have…

Issues with Generational Differences in Staffing Building a successful business today is the goal of every organization. But this often cannot be accomplished without a dedicated and highly passionate team of employees. These employees have different backgrounds and are from different generations, which often proves difficult for managers to understand and could lead to further issues in staffing. There are four recognized generations that are a part of workforce today. Each are distinct in its…

1. The term nonverbal communication refers to communication without the use of sounds or vocalization. Heider (2007) says these include gestures, expressions, and space. Nonverbal communication is often just as powerful as vocal communication as they often express subconscious feelings or thoughts. A holistic view of a cultures language can only be achieved after examining both the verbal and nonverbal communication. Nonverbal communication is important to anthropological research because they…

traditions and different Gods. Cultural relativism lengthens this idea by presuming that whether a moral action is accepted differ from society to society, and different society follow different rules, thus all cultures are treated equally. One can argue that human sacrifice in Aztec civilization was accepted by within own society, just as we have turkeys for Thanksgiving…

and have proved its benefits to medicinal practices. Refocusing on the idea of living in the Age of Bacteria, it is clear that becoming immune to the earth’s natural products are an important part of boosting one’s immune system. Entomophagy is a cultural phenomenon in foreign cultures, and is a tradition that lives on to harness the food of their ancestor’s. All in all, entomophagy is a form of food in modern cultures that contains non-dietary benefits to health. In anthropological studies, it…

One of them is cultural anthropology, which is the study of individual cultures mostly through participant observation, living in a culture or learning a culture different from your own. Cultural anthropology seeks to learn and compare cultures to help us as humans understand each other and recognize our diversity (Cloak, Jr., F. T., 1968). Basically, one cannot fully understand a culture without looking at all the features (the whole picture). One of the basic importances of cultural…